Group To Continue Arts Club Fight

November 04, 1994

Chicago — The fight to save the Arts Club of Chicago and the west side of the 600 block of North Michigan Avenue will continue, even though the city's landmarks commission last month declined to protect the club and the block from demolition, a group of architectural preservationists said Thursday.

The private, not-for-profit club, designed by renowned architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, is housed in one of four buildings that will be destroyed for a retail-entertainment complex to be built by the John Buck Co., a Chicago real estate developer.

Led by the non-profit Landmarks Preservation Council of Illinois, an advocacy group, the preservationists asked Chicagoans to petition Mayor Richard Daley to halt the project.

They also urged that a proposed Michigan Avenue historic district, now planned to cover the area from Roosevelt Road to Randolph Street, be expanded to include North Michigan Avenue.